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From OCLC: The latest enhancements for WorldCat Local includes availability on brief results, Local Holdings Record searching, article links and branch information for mobile views and more. The latest additions to the popular discovery and delivery service include the following new member-requested features: Availability views on brief results Now users can see if an item […]
University of Utah: "Two National Leadership Grants Awarded to Marriott Library"
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|From the Deseret News: The J. Willard Marriott Library at The University of Utah Library has been awarded two National Leadership Grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). In the planning grant category, the Marriott Library and project partners Mountain West Digital Library, Northwest Digital Archives and Rocky Mountain Online Archives was […]
New by Dan Cohen: "The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books"
Awards, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Publishing
|“The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books” is a new article on the The Atlantic web site, by Dan Cohen, winner of the 2011 Kilgour Award from OCLC and director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (the people who bring us Zotero and many other cool […]
New Report and Related Data: OhioLINK-OCLC Collection and Circulation Analysis Project 2011 From a News Release: This report describes a collaborative project between OCLC and OhioLINK that examined circulation in academic libraries, and includes an overview of data publicly available from the activity. The size of the combined collection and the number and diversity of […]
OCLC Research Library Partnership Posts Membership Facts and Stats
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries
|In a new post on the HangingTogether Blog from OCLC Research titled, “A little about the OCLC Research Library Partnership”, Nancy Elkington (Director of Partner Relations) shares some updated statistics about the group. As of September 1st, there are 153 institutions who have joined the Partnership. Of these, 105 (or 66%) were part of the […]
A New 24 Page Report From OCLC: "WorldCat Quality"
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|Title: Principle Contributors: Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services Glenn Patton, Director, WorldCat Quality Management From a Summary on the OCLC Web Site: This paper describes OCLC’s steps to make it easier to find items in WorldCat and get them from OCLC member libraries. It begins with a review of WorldCat’s unprecedented growth […]
Another New Experimental Resource from OCLC Research: ArchiveGrid
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Reports
|From a HangingTogether Blog Post by Jim Michalko: Those of you in the archive or research library world may be familiar with ArchiveGrid®, a database and discovery service that grew out of RLG’s Archival Resources service which leveraged all the collection level descriptions in the union catalog and aggregated the encoded finding aids that institutions […]
From an OCLC Announcement: OCLC and Ex Libris Group have signed an agreement that will enable Ex Libris to incorporate the WorldCat Search API into several Ex Libris discovery and delivery services, providing OCLC member libraries access to WorldCat through the Ex Libris Primo and MetaLib solutions. Ex Libris will integrate the WorldCat Search API, […]
HathiTrust Full-Text Index to Be Integrated Into OCLC Services
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|From OCLC: OCLC and HathiTrust have signed an agreement that will allow OCLC to integrate the HathiTrust full-text index into OCLC services, enabling member libraries and their users to more easily discover resources from this important digital collection through WorldCat. Under this new agreement, OCLC will be able to integrate the full-text index of HathiTrust […]
From OCLC: On August 26, 1971, the OCLC Online Union Catalog and Shared Cataloging system (now known as WorldCat) began operation. That first day, from a single terminal, catalogers at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, cataloged 133 books online. Today, WorldCat comprises more than 240 million records representing more than 1.7 billion items in OCLC […]